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June<br />
Learn more about the people featured in this calendar at www.scafricanamerican.com<br />
<strong>South</strong> <strong>Carolina</strong><br />
<strong>African</strong><br />
<strong>American</strong><br />
History Calendar<br />
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday<br />
1 2 3 4 5<br />
Sojourner Truth began anti-slavery<br />
activist career in 1843.<br />
T. Thomas Fortune, journalist, died in<br />
1928.<br />
Wesley A. Brown became the first<br />
Black graduate of Annapolis Naval<br />
Academy in 1949.<br />
Arna Bontemps, writer and educator,<br />
died in 1973.<br />
6 7 8 9 10 11 12<br />
In 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. was<br />
awarded his doctorate from Boston<br />
University.<br />
Congress of Racial Equality founded<br />
in 1942.<br />
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn<br />
Brooks was born in 1917.<br />
Supreme Court banned segregation in<br />
Washington, D.C. restaurants in 1953.<br />
Meta-Vaux Warick Fuller, sculptor, was<br />
born in 1877.<br />
Hattie McDaniel, first Black person to win<br />
an Oscar (for Best Supporting Actress<br />
in ‘Gone With The Wind,’ (1940), was<br />
born in 1898.<br />
Hazel Dorothy Scott, classical pianist and<br />
singer, was born in 1920.<br />
13 14 Flag Day 15 16 17 18 19<br />
Medger Evers, civil rights activist, was<br />
assassinated in 1963.<br />
Thurgood Marshall appointed to U.S.<br />
Supreme Court in 1967.<br />
Harold D. West was named president of<br />
Meharry Medical College, 1952.<br />
Errol Garner, singer and musician, was<br />
born in 1923.<br />
Denmark Vesey led slave rebellion in<br />
<strong>South</strong> <strong>Carolina</strong> in 1822.<br />
Thomas Ezekiel Miller, congressman,<br />
was born in 1849.<br />
Nannie Burroughs founded National<br />
Training School for Women, 1909.<br />
20 Father’s Day 21 First Day of Summer 22 23 24 25 26<br />
Tennessee University opens as<br />
Tennessee A&T State College in 1912.<br />
Dr. Lloyd A. Hall, pioneer in food chemistry,<br />
was born in 1894.<br />
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion, led UCLA<br />
to NCAA tennis championship,<br />
1965.<br />
Joe Louis became youngest world<br />
heavyweight boxing champion<br />
in 1937.<br />
27 28 29 30<br />
Track star Wilma Rudolph was born<br />
in 1909.<br />
John R. Lynch became first <strong>African</strong><br />
<strong>American</strong> to preside over deliberations<br />
of a national political party in 1884.<br />
Joe Louis defeated Primo Carnera at<br />
Yankee Stadium in 1935. James Weldon Johnson died in 1938.<br />
Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet and<br />
novelist, was born in 1872.<br />
Organization for Afro-<strong>American</strong> Unity<br />
founded in 1964.<br />
James Van Der Zee, photographer, was<br />
born in Lenox, MA in 1886.<br />
Lena Horne, actress, vocalist and<br />
activist, was born in 1917.